Yesterday, I had the privilege of representing America’s Voice Education Fund, alongside Renata Soto of National Council of La Raza and Fred Redmond of the United Steel Workers and the AFL-CIO, at the Daimler AG shareholder meeting with more than 6,000 attendees in Berlin, Germany.

The Mississippi legislature’s anti-immigrant bill, HB 488, is dead for the session, after failing to move in the State Senate. That led The Birmingham News’ Joey Kennedy to write, “As bad as our Legislature is, I never thought I’d have to say that even Mississippi’s Legislature is smarter than ours.”

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been in the news a lot lately. As we’ve reported, a lot of activists, including some of our allies in immigration advocacy, have been trying to expose ALEC and its shady dealings for awhile. It’s working. Coca-Cola and Pepsi have ended their sponsorship of ALEC

Civil rights leaders traveled to Berlin this week to ask Mercedes executives to speak out against Alabama’s anti-immigrant law. The delegation is part of an effort to pressure Alabama’s top automakers — Honda, Hyundai and Daimler AG — to oppose Alabama’s HB 56, known as the toughest immigration law in the country.

Sen. Marco Rubio’s recent proposal to offer a “conservative-Republican alternative” to the DREAM Act continues to draw criticism from media outlets that say it could result in “a half-measure that produces only a different sort of legal limbo” for immigrants.

The Pew Hispanic Center released an excellent new poll on Wednesday that contains a comprehensive treasure trove of information about Hispanic and Latino identity. Considering that Latinos, the fastest-growing group of voters in the country, could play a decisive role in this election, we’re going to highlight a few key bits of information that can tell us a lot about Latinos’ political attitudes.

A lot has been written this week on the recent ICE sweep that arrested more than 3,100 undocumented immigrants over the span of six days, involving more than 1,900 ICE officers in every state across the nation.

Democrats have been working hard to portray Mitt Romney as the most radical candidate on immigration in modern history. He has, they note, promised to veto the Dream Act, urged “self-deportation” and tapped the architect of the controversial Arizona and Alabama immigration laws as a campaign adviser.